Yesterday, for some reason, there were a lot of little things that made me laugh. Thought I’d share a few here today, as a mental break from all the schoolwork. ;)<\/p>\n
It started with the housemate browsing on-line who blinked and said, “A dollar I marked on Where’s George was given to a stripper in Portland.” Not the sort of thing you ordinarily expect to hear over breakfast…<\/p>\n
Later I was strolling along in the Pruneyard, and noticed there were several signature gatherers collected in the courtyard ahead of me. I think they were there for either Greenpeace or Sierra Club? I was wearing, at the time, my soft and comfy purple plaid flannel shirt. One of the young men looked over and shouted to me as I approached, “Miss! In that shirt you look like a purple planet protector!”<\/p>\n
That one made me laugh, and I told him I already was. He seemed pleased — told me to keep the faith, and we did a casual high-five as I walked on by.<\/p>\n
The last one was as I was working on-line, and had a chat room open to where some friends and I were sort of desultorily conversing. Due to a mild computer glitch I had two instances of my name or presence up in the room, and eventually the earlier one idled out and disconnected. The following conversation ensued:<\/p>\n
[On-line friend] says, “Collie?” Have a fun day, everyone! :-D<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yesterday, for some reason, there were a lot of little things that made me laugh. Thought I’d share a few here today, as a mental…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stormtiger.com\/collie\/bestiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stormtiger.com\/collie\/bestiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stormtiger.com\/collie\/bestiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stormtiger.com\/collie\/bestiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stormtiger.com\/collie\/bestiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3729"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.stormtiger.com\/collie\/bestiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3733,"href":"https:\/\/www.stormtiger.com\/collie\/bestiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3729\/revisions\/3733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stormtiger.com\/collie\/bestiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stormtiger.com\/collie\/bestiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stormtiger.com\/collie\/bestiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nCollie says, “Yes?”
\n[On-line friend] says, “Oh, sorry. I saw you ‘disconnect.'”
\nCollie says, “That was Collie1. I’m the evil twin Collie. :)”
\n[On-line friend] says, “Oh, so you’re the Mirror Universe Collie?”
\nCollie laughs! Yeah, I’m the Bearded Collie<\/a>! :)<\/p>\n